now. the latest news and all the week's top stories the birthplace of the arab revolution is simmering again nisha has been group planned to resume protests which for the murder of a prominent opposition figure. while similar scenes have been unfolding in egypt where islamists rulers are accused of a clampdown on freedoms amid a fresh showdowns of between police and protesters as well as the closure of a popular social networking site. johnson protests some are cia

hopeful john brennan's confirmation hearing while senators shy from probing his extensive history of drones torture and targeted executions. a divisive and tough maybe go shaded e.u. budget to raise the unraveling with the european parliament threatening to veto you're sorry she region package. it's a russia's a black sea resort of sochi celebrating the one year to go before the start of the most expensive winter olympics ever amid major reshuffles among the games officials with a key organizer might. is just gone a little after one o'clock here in moscow you live with us on r.t. and with me to my must say it's good to have your company. it's been

a restless week for tunisia the country is a witness risin public theory ignited by the assassination of a key opposition figure on wednesday crowds of protesters flocked to the streets of the capital tunis pinning the blame for chokri belaid murder on this lemmas government artist maria for national is there with more forty eight year old lawyer shockley belied criticize the islam is the government for creating a religious state in tunisia and burying democracy now belied is dead but his ideas are not. the country's been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika had a chance it's been a year and a half but we didn't see any progress the death of our comrade becomes the last rule. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and they bow to protect its citizens to leave i was i was.

there so i'm crying because i believe was a symbol of the dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country that this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. the interior ministry said that one million in the have joined the ceremony that turned into a political minister station people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the funeral of shock to be laid on friday after the seventy try to make their way to the city is made and yet to continue and see government protests if they were not allowed to do that at least use tear gas immediately in such a case such a siege is packed with people but slogans we're hearing are completely different. karine islamist flags people massed to rally in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to

protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't do more than five thousand participants and the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong. men did improve the people support and believe our party and all of our revenue or they try to say facebook don't have the choice but they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister proposed to form a new cabinet and consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and cruz and anxiety of a possible further split and fears a growing that the political divisions may lead to even more victims lists i was threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and say x.y.z. that person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy

dignity we're all in danger two years ago tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimal violence and turmoil but as we watch the country faced a political implosion it may be only now that this train that has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering. t. tunisia. the capital tunis has also been gripped by a national strike at into the current turmoil which according to some experts is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon what to see is a profound crisis

a crisis of the credibility of the existing of milton arrangements for holding and a massive disc crediting of the way in which they've operated i think there are signs that this could easily disintegrate into some kind of civil war only hopefully it won't happen and we remain to watch to see how the popular move organize to prevent one of the. she used to externals will walk for example by the qatari government of the right wing fundamentalists and it remains to be seen with the present government. should you gauge these two groups. another country that's still looking for stability following the arab spring is egypt plums of smoke and teargas we're covering the countries and main cities this week of falling street battles between anti-government protesters and police thousands of

people with stones and petrol bombs have been unleashing their anger against islamist president mohamed morsi the political turmoil has also been fielded by the authorities decision to block the video sharing web site you tube for months for hosting a controversial anti islam film out his bell to report from the capital cairo on how the motion has been received by the opposition. there's been a lot of condemnation of the ban by protest movements we see you cheap as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam is ation of egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling for opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to an egyptian channel justifying a six mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square you had

a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the generated five revolution when thousands are gathered in the streets of egypt second planing that the president had morsi had not made key changes the demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main rolling points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups attacked the building and with molotov they're pushed back by take us and water cannons. so bloodier violence in the in the governor with unconfirmed that's improper shake as well as violent clashes in alex. hunter on the holler we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this as finishing anytime soon. mali and rebels like airing up of terror warfare while civilians are suffering and worsening humanitarian crisis but supplies like me and most delivery routes blocked by the well we've got the story later.

a champion of drone strikes and barack obama's pick to head the cia john brennan faces senate confirmation hearing this week the session started hard but it wasn't all makers who are the most vocal and the onset ages and catcalls erupted from the audience until the judge ordered the protesters to be removed lawmakers then poked and prodded brennan on torture cia shot comings and targeted executions so similarly reluctant to challenge him on his answers but given his performance at the senator's call and after column cavell says his confirmation could set a troubling president was going on individual this is a complete of our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment do grants to those more and equal protection of the law and yet all the little solution is doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and so we can

be judge jury and executioner we can show american citizens abroad without them having their court we can say they are jurors and we can go through the danger and this is one of the good ministrations is we can in germany who are the jurors and that means that you know we were in julie americans was only drug without any problem. there is a very dangerous precedent. a close hearing awaits john brennan in order to iron out sensitive technicalities but already speculation is wife over what direction that he might take the cia but on the issue of drawings as our team's gannett she can reports his confirmation could only broaden the horizon for america's unmanned fleets. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream with drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled

remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and keep you from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use of this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s.

drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives as to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited the sas nations from the us justice department suggest the us government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america to somebody a us citizen or otherwise. is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed the spite the un raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the us is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world drama has redefined war during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers

act even apply because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address queening that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not worth john brennan often referred to as the architect of the demonstrations drone war counts the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the

cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to stick around. while drawings are in the only thing about the cia causing controversy at the moment and next hour we'll tell you how thousands of americans are also take a lie detector test to keep their jobs often having on some very intimate questions . and right after the show break a story of a big. news and neglect of the most vulnerable patients in a major u.k. hospital bear the brunt of a lack of leg lifts a kid from health professionals when they needed.

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you watching our twenty five all marathon talks snubs and haggling have left the e.u. with a new budget obeyed one that's been described as perfect for nobody coming in that nine hundred sixty billion euros is the first time the block spending plan has been cut in its history the differences of opinion the way visible. long ajo graphical divide with traditionally wealthier countries from the north led by britain calling for cuts introspection no with the continent wide austerity but france and poor e.u. states resisted with spread between opposing leaders threatening to undermine the top the talks and robert oulds the chair of the group a group of think tank us says it will always bear the disunity within the e.u.

we have seen the limits of integration here we have different national interests are clearly colliding and there is the situation was national governments are having to impose austerity across europe not just in the eurozone but also in britain because of course there's just not money available but of course there is also another issue to do with the budget and that's to that's to do with the fact that eighteen years now the european court of order to is haven't been able to sign off awfully the accounts because a lot of the spending is goes on wasteful cortex but of course more alarmingly it's also subject to a great deal of force and corruption and that's why literally eighteen years the accounts haven't been fully signed off. well the deal in visions or sweeping cuts to a number of ego projects including integration and infrastructure but millions of euros are reportedly still allocated for the so-called p.r. blitz against the blocs critics and social media websites euro skeptic nigel farage

from the u.k. independence party says the project would violate one of the main principles of the european parliament. they decided that they're going to train him how staff in the run up to the european elections are twenty fourteen train those people to go online to look at facebook twitter and other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misapprehensions that may exist about the european union and i have to say the fact that it's a parliament that is doing this that is using taxpayers' money to do this says a lot about the institutions that all what about parliaments is the person is it's him a chair of parliament he's the speaker in westminster he's the chairman in other parliaments around the world but he all the rest of the staff are supposed to be neutral they're not supposed to take any political position at all and the fact that the parliament decided it's going to spend money time and resources doing this shows

you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic. giant clogs taking all over russia officially starting the countdown until the beginning sorts the winter olympics the black sea resort of through a spellbinding celebration marking one year until the games get underway artie's enter farmer looks at the construction already completed and how much work is still need it. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven pace by pace the city has been putting its a limping dream together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of hosted test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being

referred and furnished to show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train a managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center the only venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing us what's the overall. mishawr assessing the amount of the loan if it was stolen what's a rough estimate. this initial price of one point two billion now it's a. one point two billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's limp dick committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi

games will be the most expensive in nearly history they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the new summit games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which is sixpenny is all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the. in the qur'an the bolshoi i studied. the past arena was used for a spectacular skating show i was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will host the and in the ice hockey finals in the sheeny so tropical like ation the slogan for thought you twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because even big park is them by their backs in case they're i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. progress

is rapid that there was a poor resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and cross country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road or elite and i spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes sochi itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place a new hotels are built but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially on the disc and we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future those brilliant future she then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation easily most complete in the black sea resort

believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. softly. they olympic spirit or even to reach a new york abyss week as you and chief ban ki-moon are joined the celebrations that the organization is headquarters and just to remind those action love is among you who don't want to miss the games tickets already on sale and are available online. a massive explosion has rocked the area near molly's a north korean city of gul some ten kilometers away from a french military base it came hours after a suicide bombing was prevented in the same city fears have been escalating

throughout the week up to its lead make extremists leaders vowed to keep up a guerrilla war against french backed local troops security is being tightened that military checkpoints to prevent new terror attacks the french army says its military operation is almost complete and it's preparing to hand over to the un peacekeeping force john a lot planned from the paris institute of democracy and corporation believes the intervention could be part of a wider campaign for western domination of africa i think the two main factors in this of france's own desire to strengthen the whole role on the international stage in particular piece of you know european partners and also the american strict future plans for africa it's important to know that america which strongly supports fronts in this mali and intervention has plans for establishing a military presence in the military control over the whole of the african continent some people speculated to have used the phrase that this was america leading from

behind that america decided to put forward its european allies to do as it were it started the securing of energy resources is one of the key factors behind many if not most your ability to buy them and stick around and that's why i say that the of course the issue of hydrocarbons and uranium and other energy sources is a key and may be the decisive factor. a huge health care abuse scandal has erupted in the u.k. this week a public inquiry has found hundreds of patients suffering at the hands of health workers talls with looking after them the british prime minister david cameron has officially apologize for the suffering but that is your only looks like it's growing arjun's what i would call reports and stuff and hospital. my wife stuff at hospital in september of two thousand and eight is just a disaster is a total chaos when you walk through the door of the world you can smell it. you

know to me crying you know stuff from very little to find and. to believe there was left to reach. or in two months new shoes on the floor we've been there since breakfast on. the. line to write for you see. medication wasn't given to. the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories to match from the now notorious stafford hospital before that sandy would describe it would not stand. alone. in the most horrible sense seems. to be she'd have to go through what she went through julie baby's mother died at stafford in what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospital's practice says she was faced with a cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital mid staffs was failing and

yet the that was never shared with the public and i believe the same as in all the hospitals it's so much that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand people never got to see them discharged from this hospital patients died needlessly off the suffering a catalogue of neglect left in there an egg. comment dehydrated and without painkillers it's the biggest scandal to have hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages a person's health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stuff that dotted all across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s. functions it's got to be made safe tomorrow because people can't continue to suffer

the hospital's chief executive has said we're sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances of cat which fall below that which we want to provide sorry might be too late but the tide of public anger swelling campaigners say it's time for westminster to overhaul britain's beleaguered health service before any more lives and needlessly lost polly boyko r t staff it. coming up we'll take an in-depth look at the pine movement in the us then to the brain there are nineteen.

saudi arabia has ordered its retailers to construct one point six metre tall barriers in the middle of their stores a rather unusual demand is that something related to everyone's favorite buzzword terrorism no it is to keep male and female coworkers separate saudi arabia is pretty infamous in the west for its laws regarding the sexes and their segregation activists always want to go to other countries to convince them to adopt western attitudes that deep down in their hearts they secretly want but often they miss things like the fact that it was saudi women who asked. for the segregation feeling uncomfortable while buying products from men according to a.f.p. you know some people in countries like saudi arabia or north korea might actually like living a radically different lifestyle and even if they don't like living that way well it is their job to fix it not by some sort of western intervention when i want to live in either of those countries not really do i want to live in a country with the saudi arabian concept of gender no not really but part of having freedom of choice means being able to choose things.